The Book of Old Ladies: Celebrating Women of a Certain Age in Fiction - Paperback

by Ruth O. Saxton (Author)

This is a book that champions older women's stories and challenges the limiting outcomes we seem to hold for them. The Book of Old Ladies
introduces readers to thirty stories featuring fictional "women of a
certain age" who increasingly become their truest selves. Their stories
will entertain and provide insight into the stories we tell ourselves
about the limits and opportunities of aging. A celebration of women who
push back against the limiting stereotypes regarding older women's
possibility, The Book of Old Ladies is a book lover's guide to
approaching old age and dealing with its losses while still embracing
beauty, creativity, connection, and wonder.

Author Biography

Dr. Ruth O. Saxton is a Professor Emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Over the course of her forty-two-year career, she has studied, taught, and published works on fiction by women for decades, focusing on how narratives limit or expand what we imagine to be possible. Dr. Saxton served as the college's first Dean of Letters, cofounded the Women's Studies program, and founded the Rhetoric and Composition program. Her scholarly works include The Girl, Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women; Approaches to Teaching Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (with Eileen Barrett); and Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold (with Jean Tobin). She currently resides in Oakland, CA.